hs c o m m e r c e b e t w e e n 



In order to give the reader fome notion of that vaft 

 tradt of country, over which the merchandize is fre- 

 quently tranfported by land carriage, a lift of the dif- 

 tances is here fubjoined. 



The Chinefe tranfport their goods to Kiachta chiefly 

 upon camels. It is four or five days journey from Pekin 

 to the wall of China, and forty-lix from thence acrofs 

 the Mongol defert to Kiachta-'-'. 



* Pallas Reifc, P. III. p. 134. 



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